Category: Wirenews
Penn State’s top player had the Nittany Lions on the verge of a big upset Wednesday before Wisconsin’s top player stepped up and helped deliver the fifth-ranked Badgers their ninth straight victory. Forward Frank Kaminsky had four crucial points to answer a big Penn State run and forward Sam Dekker scored a career-high 22 points […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Center Rakeem Christmas scored 29 points, including 18 in the second half, to lead Syracuse to a 69-59 win over No. 12 Louisville on Wednesday night in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at the Carrier Dome. The Orange (17-9, 8-5 ACC) trailed 35-28 at the half but outscored the Cardinals 41-27 in […]
CHICAGO — Forwards Seth Tuttle and Nate Buss each scored 10 points to lead the No. 11 Northern Iowa Panthers to a 58-39 Missouri Valley Conference victory over the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers on Wednesday at Gentile Arena. The Panthers (25-2, 14-1 MVC) broke a two-game Gentile Arena losing streak, extended their current winning run to 14 […]
NEW YORK — NBA commissioner Adam Silver is a self-professed basketball junkie, who often flips through NBA league pass every night and finds compelling games to tune into. “I love where our game is right now,” Silver said at his second state of the league address Saturday night. “I don’t think it’s ever been more […]
Western Conference coach Steve Kerr has reportedly decided to make Portland Trail Blazers power forward LaMarcus Aldridge his fifth starter, replacing the injured Anthony Davis, in Sunday’s All-Star game. ESPN.com earlier reported on Saturday that Kerr initially planned to start Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant in place of Davis, the New Orleans Pelicans star […]
NEW YORK — A year ago, Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook was recovering from a third knee surgery in six months. On Sunday, he placed himself in the conversation with immortals Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan thanks to a brilliant All-Star Game showing. Westbrook came within one point of Chamberlain’s 1962 record by […]
NEW YORK — Russell Westbrook set an NBA All-Star Game record by scoring 27 in a half, guiding the Western Conference to an 83-82 lead over the Eastern Conference at halftime Sunday. The Oklahoma City Thunder guard hit 11 of 15 first-half shots from the floor, including three of five 3-point attempts. Houston Rockets guard […]
NEW YORK — Tim Duncan’s first All-Star Game was as a rookie in 1998 when the game was held at Madison Square Garden and he scored two points and had 10 rebounds in 14 minutes. It was held at a time when Michael Jordan was exiting the league, though he returned three years later with […]
NEW YORK — Andrew Wiggins had described one of the dunks that Minnesota Timberwolves teammate Zach LaVine had up his sleeve as one that would make people unconscious with amazement. That mysterious dunk didn’t surface Saturday night but LaVine had plenty of other aerial tricks up his sleeve, becoming the second youngest winner of the […]
The New York Knicks waived forward Amar’e Stoudemire on Monday. The Knicks reached an agreement Sunday to buy out the contract of Stoudemire, multiple media outlets reported Sunday night. Stoudemire was in the last season of a five-year, $99.7 million deal. Assuming no team claims him and takes on his $23.4 million salary, he would […]
